Monthly Archive: December 2014

Their books “The Third Wave” (1980) and “The Third Industrial Revolution” (2011) were divided by over 30 years, but had plenty in common. Both authors referred to the limits of our existing development path. Environmental destruction, reliance on finite resources, and even climate change (already in the late 1970s when Toffler wrote his book) were …

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (…), it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” No other words than these, written by Charles Dickens over 150 years ago, can better describe the state of the union, the European Union, at present. Over 50 per cent …

Fewer texts are more sacred for an average American citizen than the Constitution of the United States of America. You either have to be very brave, or very, very stupid to publicly undermine its sanctity and suggest radical changes. Without doubt I would classify Alvin Toffler as belonging to the first group. In his imaginative …

Andrzej Ancygier Ph.D, born 1981, specializes in the European energy policy with focus on renewable energy and climate policies. In his PhD dissertation he analyzed the implementation of directives 2001/77/EC and 2009/28/EC in Poland. His research was done mainly when working for the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation of the European Commission. After returning to Berlin he started teaching a course “European Environmental Policy” at the New York University in Berlin. Currently, as a Research Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance, he analyzes the impact of the German energy transformation on Polish renewable energy and climate policy.